1 Samuel 19:16

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When the messengers arrived, they found the household idol in the bed, with a quilt of goat's hair at its head.

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  • 90%

    10 Saul attempted to pin David to the wall with his spear, but David dodged, and the spear struck the wall. David fled and escaped that night.

    11 Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, saying, 'If you don’t escape tonight, you will be killed in the morning.'

    12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped.

    13 Michal then took a household idol, placed it in the bed, put a quilt made of goat's hair at its head, and covered it with a garment.

    14 When Saul sent messengers to capture David, Michal said, 'He is sick.'

    15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, 'Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him.'

  • 74%

    17 Saul said to Michal, 'Why have you deceived me like this? You let my enemy go, and he has escaped.' Michal answered Saul, 'He said to me,

    18 David fled and escaped. He went to Samuel at Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

    19 When Saul was told, 'David is at Naioth in Ramah,' he acted accordingly.

    20 Saul sent messengers to capture David. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also began to prophesy.

  • 72%

    19 Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse, saying, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

    20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.

  • 1 Sam 24:2-5
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    2 When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, 'David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.'

    3 So Saul chose three thousand elite men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men near the rocks of the wild goats.

    4 He came to the sheepfolds along the way, and there was a cave. Saul went in to relieve himself, while David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave.

    5 David’s men said to him, 'This is the day the LORD spoke about when He said, "I will give your enemy into your hands, and you may do to him as you see fit."' Then David arose and secretly cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

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    17 The five men who had gone to scout the land went inside and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.

    18 When they entered Micah's house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast idol, the priest said to them, 'What are you doing?'

  • 7 So David and Abishai came to the troops by night, and there was Saul lying asleep in the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the troops were lying all around him.

  • 57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.

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    24 When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said,

    25 Saul replied, 'Say to David, "The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies."' Saul’s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.

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    8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

    9 They stripped him, took his head and armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news to their idols and their people.

    10 They put his armor in the temple of their gods and impaled his skull in the temple of Dagon.

  • 5 Then David got up and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the camp with the troops encamped around him.

  • 6 Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. Saul was seated in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the hill, spear in hand, with all his servants standing around him.

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    13 The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" The woman said to Saul, "I see a spirit coming up out of the earth."

    14 Saul asked her, "What does he look like?" She replied, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe." Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground in reverence.

  • 14 Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, son of Saul, to say, 'Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a payment of one hundred Philistine foreskins.'

  • 20 When David returned to bless his household, Michal, daughter of Saul, came out to meet him and said, 'How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, uncovering himself in the sight of the servant girls of his officials, as a vulgar person might shamelessly uncover himself!'

  • 31 When David's words were heard, they were reported to Saul, and he sent for him.

  • 54 David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he kept the Philistine's weapons in his tent.

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    12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul's head, and they departed. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

    13 David crossed over to the other side and stood on top of the hill at a distance, with a wide space between them.

  • 14 Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish said to their fellow Danites, 'Do you know that in these houses there's an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a cast idol? Now think about what you should do.'

  • 20 The priest was glad in his heart. He took the ephod, the household gods, and the carved image and went along with the people.

  • 2 Sam 4:7-8
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    7 After entering the house while Ishbosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, and cut off his head. Taking his head with them, they traveled along the road through the Arabah all night.

    8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has given my lord the king revenge against Saul and his descendants."

  • 34 David said to Saul, 'Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,'

  • 9 They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among the people.

  • 3 Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which faces the wilderness along the road, while David stayed in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul had come into the wilderness after him,

  • 7 Look, it is Solomon's couch, surrounded by sixty valiant men, the warriors of Israel.

  • 22 David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear. Let one of the young men come over and take it.

  • 22 Finally, Saul himself went to Ramah. He came to the great cistern at Secu and asked, 'Where are Samuel and David?' Someone answered, 'They are at Naioth in Ramah.'

  • 9 David asked Ahimelech, 'Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.'

  • 10 Let’s make a small room on the roof with walls and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then, whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.

  • 22 So they inquired further of the LORD, 'Has the man come here yet?' And the LORD said, 'He is hiding among the supplies.'

  • 27 So David arose and went out with his men, and they struck down two hundred Philistines. David brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

  • 22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived, he reported to David everything Joab had sent him to say.